Over a year ago, the University of Houston got the greenlight from the state of Texas to create a central hub for innovation on campus, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, vice president of energy and innovation at the University of Houston, tells InnovationMap.
“We asked the state two years ago for appropriations to create an innovation hub at the University of Houston,” Krishnamoorti says on this week’s episode of the Houston Innovators Podcast. “We are now in the process of creating an innovation hub central to the campus at the University of Houston.”
While the project is still in its early stages, the university has revealed some details on the building, which is slated to open in 2025 next to the M.D. Anderson Library on UH’s main campus. It will be around 70,000 square feet and will house a makerspace, the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, the Energy Transition…